Regional hybrid dialogue_Towards a New SDG 2 Indicator: Minimum Dietary Diversity

FAO, in its commitment to eradicate hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms,promotes universal access to healthy diets. According to the joint declaration by FAO and WHO, ahealthy diet is based on four essential principles: adequacy, balance, moderation, and diversity. Adequacy means that the diet must meet the body’s essential nutrient requirements—withoutdeficiencies or […]
RAES will participate in Nutrition for Growth (N4G) side event

The Government of Brazil, through the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and the National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE), together with FAO and the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger, through the Trilateral South-South Cooperation (TSSC), is promoting the side event Uniting Global Efforts to Ensure Nutritious School Meals for Every Child at the Nutrition for […]
PNAE Brazil National Meeting 2025

The National Meeting of PNAE will bring together around 1,500 participants, including managers, nutritionists, school feeding counselors and experts, to discuss the construction of the Brazilian School Feeding Policy on February 4 and 5. The event will be attended by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the First Lady, Janja Lula da […]
Launch of the 2024 Global Survey Report on School Meal Programs

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are thrilled to invite you to the official launch of the 2024 edition of the Global Survey Report, School Meal Programs Around the World. This hybrid event will take place on February 4th, 2025, online and in Washington, D.C. School meal […]
RAES event: Strengthening partnerships for a sustainable school feeding for all

The Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES) invites you to the hybrid event entitled ‘RAES – Strengthening Partnerships for a Sustainable School Feeding for All’, to be held on 21 and 22 November 2024 in Panama. This event, held within the framework of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation, aims to promote discussions and exchanges of experiences on […]
Global Child Nutrition Forum 2024

The Global Child Nutrition Forum is a four-day learning exchange and technical assistance conference held biannually to support countries in the development and implementation of sustainable school feeding programs. Since 1997, the Forum has brought together governments from across the world and their partners for intensive training, technical assistance and planning, all directed toward establishing and strengthening […]
World Food Forum

As one of the leading youth-led platforms, the World Food Forum (WFF) brings together young agents of change in the agri-food sector and creates spaces for meaningful discussions with decision-makers in order to create a dialogue between generations and cross-cutting partnerships in all areas of food and agriculture. In line with this, all of the […]
Commemoration of the International Day of Awareness on the Reduction of Food Loss and Waste

The fifth edition of the International Food Loss and Waste Awareness Day to be held on 3 and 4 October, in person in Chile and with live streaming, will emphasise the critical need for funding to drive efforts to reduce food loss and waste, contribute to the achievement of climate goals and advance the 2030 […]
Sustainability in food systems based dietary guidelines: powering change for NutritiON

The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) called for urgent transformation of food systems to deliver healthy diets from sustainable food systems for all – and address problems of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency in parallel to a growing obesity crisis. Many countries have developed food systems transformation pathways that require changes in public and […]
AMPAE Virtual Event

With the intention of compiling details on the development of School Feeding Programmes (SFP) in the countries of the region, the Brazil-FAO Cooperation has created the Maturity Analysis of the SFP (AMPAE) for Latin America and the Caribbean, a tool for diagnosis and detailed analysis of the SFP development processes in each of the participating […]